Hi all,
I'm not quite sure of the real meaning of "Amen" taken in this
context, but I am sensitive to Sherrie's message and others of the
same kind that have been recently send on this list. I guess and hope
Health promotion is a human project and to be honest, some recent
comments sometimes makes me feel that poverty and human suffering are
ranked at the pure conceptual level. Both compassion, strategies of
many kinds and conceptual refinement (...) seems for me to be all
together essential to make this world a better world to be in not
only for ourselves but also for others.
Humanity has nothing to do with politic; nevertheless, both are
required in order to work all together trying to bring back justice
and equity using, as the primary matter, the remains of a global
international human community.
And the last few years have clearly shown me that this sensitivity
has nothing to do with professional beliefs or any educational
backgrounds but with personnel history and the way people deal with
it as adults in order to become more sensitive to other's situations
in an individual and global perspective.
As health professionals, and I guess as simple human beings, I
believe we should sincerely and constantly ask ourselves about the
interests that underlies our job.
Maybe this is another "Amen kind" opinion but I guess if we are at
the point to fight for saving the human values; please let it be
because a world without humanity concerns at the first level is a
very dangerous one!
Marie-José Potvin
>Amen!
>
>Hersh
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Health Promotion on the Internet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
>Behalf Of Sherrie Tingley
>Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 9:54 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Finding our way- making change
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>HI all,
>
>I am one of a thousand daily listeners to this list and have been for many
>years. I have been involved in health promotion, anti poverty work and
>human rights in housing work, most recently managing eviction prevention for
>The Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation. I have personal experience
>of being on welfare, facing eviction and homelessness. I also have personal
>experience of working with people on line as a facilitator of a list serve
>for the Workfare Watch Project. Because my list is made up of people
>working front-line and people living with the fall out of welfare reform it
>can get very difficult at times. I demand that we have respect for each
>others work and that we work towards solutions.
>
>I think that is what we need on this list- practical solutions, stories of
>success, sharing of our struggles, celebrations of our successes no mater
>how small they seem.
>
>With my work in trying to prevent evictions for the 4000 + households in the
>City of Ottawa not a week goes by that I do not talk to a health
>professional that is working with a client(or who works with regularly) a
>client who is facing a housing crisis.
>
>The profession is only too aware of the impact of the social and economic
>inequality as a detriments of health, they are in the trenches everyday.
>And I think everyone in this province is close to the breaking point of not
>being able to absorb the misery they see on a daily basis.
>
>Personally I find it difficult to sleep at night, to go home to a relatively
>secure home and eat my choice of healthy food. I know I am not alone.
>
>So, in closely, lets find our way together in a positive way, lets share our
>struggles, lets respect each others work and commitment to make change.
>
>Thanks for allowing me to rant,
>
>Sherrie Tingley
>Program Manager
>Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
>Mailto:[log in to unmask]
>http://www.equalityrights.org/cera
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Me too , please .
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>Reason = Dennis Raphael's repetitive speil .
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>Karel Lyons
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